1) IHF to pay all travel costs for upcoming Women’s World Championships. As Ruben Gomez at Mundo Handball noted this will enable non European teams to take that cost savings and apply it to additional prep matches in Europe prior to the World Championships :

5) German National Team coach suggests that HBL require clubs to have a minimum number of German players. The complaint is that in addition to top level outside talent, mid-level non-German players are taking spots that would go to developing young German players.